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CHF Benefit Gala: Brian Stokes Mitchell
Friday, November 2, 2007
Symphony Center, Chicago
In his Symphony Center debut, the Tony Award-winner and dashing "leading man" of Broadway demonstrates his remarkable musical versatility in an evening-long solo concert of beloved show tunes, jazz standards, and cabaret favorites. This all-new concert will debut in October at New York's Carnegie Hall, after which it heads directly to Chicago for ONE NIGHT ONLY at the CHF Benefit Gala!
The always-in-demand "Stokes" won the Tony Award for his performance in Kiss Me Kate in 2000, and was Tony-nominated for his work in Man of La Mancha, Ragtime, and King Hedley II. He was also seen on Broadway in Kiss of the Spider Woman and Jelly's Last Jam, and is a frequent participant in the "Encores!" series at New York City Center.
In 2005, Stokes made his cabaret debut at New York's Feinstein's in a critically acclaimed one-man show Love/Life, for which he won several awards. He has also acted in such television series as Trapper John, MD, Crossing Jordan, and Frasier, and the films One Last Thing and The Prince of Egypt. Last year, he released his first solo CD Brian Stokes Mitchell, which features his unforgettable performances of "Something's Coming," "Pretty Women," "How Long Has This Been Going On," "Being Alive," and other sophisticated Broadway favorites.
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The 2007 Chicago Humanities Festival will examine the implications of perhaps the most important long-term issue facing civilization today: the specter of global environmental and ecological disruption. Converging forces—global climate change, habitat destruction, and overpopulation—have focused our attention and conscience on the world we live in, our place or role within it, and our future as a species on this planet. These forces emerge in part from our own cumulative choices and actions, and represent a challenge to artists and humanists as well as scientists and policymakers.
Today’s “climate of concern” raises profound and fundamental questions bridging politics, science, the arts, and more. What are the consensus scientific findings, metrics, and premises, and the challenges to them? How have past peoples dealt with and survived similar catastrophes and impending events that changed their world? How have the passionate warnings of past or modern-day prophets been received? How have cultures addressed such abstract notions as “providing for future generations” or envisioning an end of life (individual or species) on Earth? What is at stake for the various groups and interests in our global society today? Finally, given all of our knowledge, how will we collectively respond to the current situation?
Artists, scholars, poets, naturalists, scientists, and philosophers have long striven to understand and convey our relationship to the physical world around us, celebrating nature’s majesty while acknowledging our ability to both harmonize with and dominate it. Now, as our world responds to accelerating change and apparent disruption, the Festival challenges artists and humanists to assess The Climate of Concern and summon the will to imagine and create a more caring, respectful, and sustainable relationship between ourselves and the planet we share. The Festival fittingly stages this discussion in Chicago, the heartland of America and the greenest of its cities.
Image Credit: Sanford Robinson Gifford, American, 1823-1880, Hunter Mountain, Twilight, 1866, Oil on canvas, 30 5/8 x 54 1/8 in. (77.8 x 137.5 cm), Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection, 1999.57, photography courtesy of the Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago, IL.
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